Sentences with phrase «donor countries»

Instead, they are placing education lower on their list of priorities: half of donor countries decreased their aid to basic education from 2008 - 2010 and 2011 - 2013.

But with major donor countries unwilling to dig deeper and an estimated $ 3.5 trillion needed by 2030 to implement climate plans in developing countries, banks are looking elsewhere for support.

The way development usually works is this: donor countries contribute money to poor countries as grants, and the funds are managed by local governments or charities.

As a subjective metric, quality can mean different things to different stakeholders, while of donor countries, recipients and institutional actors may place quality across a broad spectrum of objectives.

This decreases the financial assistance through MLF required of donor countries in the long term, but increases funding needs in the short term in order to provide much needed climate mitigation in the short term.

Oxfam warns this is far from the 0.7 per cent promised at the United Nations 30 years ago, and says too much of the aid budget - an estimated 40 per cent - is spent on expansive consultants flown in from donor countries.

No matter how much hard work is done by development agencies, no matter how large the donations and commitments that are made by donor countries, if we don't take care of some other elements of development, we will not meet the goals that we've set.

Multilateral lending agencies such as the Asian Development Bank as well as a number of donor countries like Germany and Japan are injecting increasing amounts of money into renewable energy in Asia.

Hopefully, it will give Canada an opportunity to align itself with more enlightened donor countries, some of which, like the UK, may even be under conservative governments.

Ecuador also failed to convince donor countries by opening up new Amazonian areas for drilling.

Germany's organ donor rate is less than half of what it is in Spain, the leading donor country, according to 2010 figures provided by the German Organ Transplantation Foundation (DSO).

In this matter of famine relief, one of the most vital facts to be considered is not the resources available in the affluent donor countries, but rather the foreseeable consequences of indiscriminate sharing.

Donor countries tend to emphasize their narrow concepts of human rights as a prerequisite to sanction development assistance.

According to President Akufo - Addo, «even if there were no aid fatigue, and with the best will in the world and the most charitable governments in place in the so - called donor countries, there will never be enough aid to develop Ghana to the level we want.

He said anybody that wanted evidence about Ghana's dire need for aid, should go to the health sector where many Ghanaian children were dying of childhood killer diseases because donor countries had cut back on vaccine donations.

Last year, all the European donor countries committed to spend 0.7 percent of their GNP in foreign aid.

Speaking to the State Department's Foreign Affairs Policy Board, Stern warned that there will be «enormous pressure» on donor countries to show they are making progress on a vow to generate $ 100 billion annually by 2020 for clean energy and adaptation.

Fonseca says that the GEF has continued to attract significant funding from donor countries throughout the economic downturn because it is regarded as a «safe and secure investment» in comparison with other international - development investments.

Donor countries often respond to problems of underdevelopment by dispatching their own experts to take up key positions.

«There is an enormous gap in per capita contributions among donor countries — providing a significant opportunity for many donors to increase their contributions,» it concludes.

This invitation - only event, hosted for finance and climate ministries of select donor countries, typifies the extraordinary emphasis rich governments are placing on private finance as the solution to meeting developing countries» climate needs.

Since most countries with tropical forests do not have sufficient funds to support these efforts, many rely on international funding from donor countries under the umbrella of REDD + to complement their own investments.

Its three largest donor countries have slammed it for lacking a «theory of change» and coherent strategy; a split between industrialized and developing countries has paralyzed the board; and smaller, climate - vulnerable countries complain it is difficult to get accredited as a prospective recipient of GCF funding.

Most of what is called development around the world is really donor nation dollars hiring donor nation contractors to deliver last century's technologies, in such a way that the jobs and the economic benefit go right back to the originating donor country.

South Korean adoptees had higher global and verbal test scores compared to adoptees from other non-European donor countries.

To achieve the goal of sustainable agricultural productivity, our strategy relies on strong partnerships with donor countries, multilateral institutions, private foundations, and other organizations.

The letter thus clearly pinpoints the sellers of formula milks as the originators behind this extraordinary and unconscionable threat by a major donor country.

By this ECO means: «unilateral» NAMAs, mitigation action implemented solely by developing countries; «supported» NAMAs, mitigation action financially supported by donor countries; and «credited» NAMAs, actions that, like the CDM, result in some form of trade - able carbon credits.

Moreover, most of the World Health Organization's annual budget comes from donor countries that earmark it for specific projects such as HIV prevention or polio eradication, not surveillance of amorphous threats.

It took a few decades for the donor countries in the OECD to articulate principles of effective aid in the 2005 Paris Declaration.

Additionally, Ms. Taylor has worked with government, donor countries, and non government organizations at all levels in a variety of roles in project management, budgetary account management, human resource development, training and educational support and development issues.

That donor countries have been the enablers of Africa's arms addiction has certainly been the pattern so far.

Such reforms would first and foremost have to diminish the discretionary power of political elites — an important goal for civil society groups, many of which have expressed fears that donor countries are downplaying their concerns about corruption in favor of capitalizing on the coming boom.

Donor countries have vowed to offer $ 100 billion annually by 2020 for clean energy and adaptation, but with little progress

On 23 November, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria announced that it will not fund new grants for prevention and treatment until 2014, owing to «substantial budget challenges in some donor countries».

However, the authors said that donor countries should ensure that vulnerable populations in middle - income countries, such as ethnic minorities who suffer discrimination, refugees and people who inject drugs, continue to get support, since it may be difficult for many countries to withstand the political pressures against helping stigmatized groups.

On top of that, the expatriates are usually paid out of the aid budget according to the salary scales of the donor country.

To fill this shortfall, donor countries must increase their aid to education six times.

How can donor countries be smarter, and how can recipient countries do more with what they receive?

Donor countries must at COP22 provide greater clarity on how the $ 100 billion roadmap will guarantee sufficient support for the most vulnerable communities.

The money is dispatched from departments of state, forestry, and aid in the donor countries to multilateral organizations like the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF), the United Nations Collaborative Initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (UN-REDD), and the Forest Investment Program (FIP) before finding its way to countries as diverse as Peru, Ethiopia, and Indonesia.